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For 4,039 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 44% higher than the average critic
  • 4% same as the average critic
  • 52% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 4 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Music review score: 69
Highest review score: 100 Channel Orange
Lowest review score: 0 Revival
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2,753 out of 4039
  2. Mixed: 1,215 out of 4039
  3. Negative: 71 out of 4039
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    • 85 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    evermore
    This record further establishes her identity as a modern poet, and the allusions to writers of old are tucked throughout. ... Mid-record songs like “cowboy like me” and “long story short” might not rise to the top either, but to say that any of these songs are weaker in comparison to others is like complaining about smudges in a crystal wine glass set — everything here is still beautiful and much better than collections you might find elsewhere.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    Star Wars
    The record’s impromptu release was surprising; that Star Wars delivered on all of the excitement surrounding it is anything but.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    Call Me If You Get Lost
    To Tyler’s credit, he didn’t rest on his laurels. Instead, he crafted a concise piece of work about a very confident adult realizing his own ego is both his best asset and indeed his worst enemy.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    Detroit 2
    It’s one of Big Sean’s strongest efforts and one that should make the Motor City proud.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    Atrocity Exhibition
    These songs aren’t for everyone, but they stand as some of the most fearlessly created music of the year--even if Brown sometimes sounds petrified for his life.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    Have We Met
    Have We Met, though perhaps less ambitious than Destroyer’s best work, is nevertheless their freshest and most enjoyable record in years.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    Summertime '06
    Former Kanye mentor No I.D., DJ Dahi, and Clams Casino handle production on the album, but they work together with Staples so that the seams between the different dreams, hallucinations, memories, and nightmares don’t show.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    Lost Wisdom pt. 2
    The lyrical reference points are no less poignant for their obvious subjects; occasionally the poetry drops out altogether, most notably when Elverum reverts to his now-traditional laments about the Internet, commercial media, and technology at large.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    Utopia
    Together [Björk and Arca], assisted at points by a 12-piece Icelandic flute ensemble and the Hamrahlid Choir (in which Björk herself sang as a teenager), they grow a thriving sound world rich in nuance and detail.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    Silver Tongue
    The entire album feels hard and driving, like electric rain or the tension between two thunderclouds. The fact that Silver Tongue is so thoroughly electric and buzzing is part of what makes it such a convincing rendering of a relationship between two people, galvanized and ultimately realized.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    Gods of Violence
    The record surges without slowing down, expanding without adding burden. Moreover, it proves that, out of the old class, Kreator are among the strongest, crushed not by ego or commercial temptations.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    When You Walk a Long Distance You Are Tired
    When You Walk a Long Distance You Are Tired elevates its words with sharp, aware, and plush instrumentation.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    First Taste
    First Taste is scatterbrained and self-indulgent, no doubt. But that’s also what makes it such heady fun. Segall once again makes the various ideas and sounds floating about in his head something worth listening to.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    How Do You Love?
    Part of the fun of listening to How Do You Love? is following the narrative that unfolds throughout, as so much of the album’s smartness lies within the precise evolution that occurs from one track to the other. Unfortunately, though, it is impossible to alert the world that the album is perhaps best listened to in order the first time around.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    Dodge and Burn
    What makes Dodge and Burn such a terrific and complete listen is how much ground it effectively covers and how furiously it does so.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    Weathervanes
    While the writing on Weathervanes is carefully crafted and wildly impressive, what sets the record apart in a discography full of tattoo-worthy couplets is the contributions of The 400 Unit. They’ve undoubtedly been an integral part of Isbell’s past few efforts, but the band has never sounded so locked into an album’s singular vision.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    Wall of Eyes
    Wall of Eyes is the sound of a more confident, collaborative The Smile, a version of the band willing to let their ideas ferment, even at the expense of immediacy.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    I See You
    What makes The xx and I See You so enthralling, then, may not be a particular combination of lyrics and melodies, but the notion that there’s a secret life playing out here--one we may not be entirely privy to, but one that still rings with the sound of truth in all of its complexities.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    S&M2 [Live]
    Overall, everything is brighter here versus the original S&M. It’s a celebration of Metallica, their fans, and their music. Let this version of S&M2 be the one that’s remembered.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    You're Gonna Miss It All
    With 12 songs that clock in at under 30 minutes, You’re Gonna Miss It All is a brisk listen that only lags once or twice.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    Begin Again
    Where genre and production experimentation may lead others astray, Jones brings a particular grace to songwriting that allows her to adapt almost seamlessly to new forms. Begin Again revels in exploration, proving no territory is inaccessible to Jones.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    Electric Lady Sessions
    Over the course of its 12 tracks, the record manages to redeem the spotty moments of the band’s comeback record, remind listeners of the endurance of the hits that came before, and, in Whang’s increased vocal role, even hint at some potential evolutions to come. Most importantly, it gives us the best picture yet of a live act that’s always been surprisingly difficult to commit to tape.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    Spiritual Songs For Lovers To Sing
    LUH’s debut is certainly over-the-top, and purposefully so. Hoorn and Roberts strive for catharsis repeatedly and find it. They avoid the placid, disillusioned platitudes that can befall music like this, earning the catharsis they strive for.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    Tell Me How You Really Feel
    Lyrically, Barnett feels more accessible this time around, letting us share her anxiety when it comes to daily threats like toxic masculinity (“Nameless, Faceless”) and even scaling back the syllables (again on “Charity”) to simply reassure us that we’re not alone.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    Surrender
    Surrender is the album that Maggie Rogers needs right now. It’s one that shows how much she’s grown as an artist, how much her voice is capable of, and how she can exercise her ability to transcend in only a few notes.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    Schlagenheim
    There is a sort of pure, youthful exuberance to what black midi are making, but their experimentation also carries with it a sense of mission.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    Quiet Signs
    Pratt astutely portrays the hole that grows during a profound loss, the questions that emerge that can’t be answered. Quiet Signs offers solace in place of definitive resolution as it drifts by, able to capture so much with so little at play.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    Ventura
    Ventura is lean and lovely.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    ANIMA
    It’s easily Yorke’s best solo outing and rates among his finest albums from any project this century.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    Arrows
    It’s their best album since their debut, capturing an energy that was lacking on previous efforts. The songs here are simply more memorable and diverse, brimming with riffs and adventurous vocals.
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